[guido@zope.com: Re: [Python-Dev] Re: WebDAV in python 2.2?]
Greg Stein
gstein@lyra.org
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:22:27 -0700
[ misaddressed... ]
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From: Guido van Rossum <guido@zope.com>
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Re: WebDAV in python 2.2?
To: Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:18:37 -0400
> My intent was to write a short PEP because there would be a couple modules
> to add to the lib:
>
> 1) httpauth -- subclasses httplib.HTTPConnection to add authenticated
> connections. Initially using the Basic auth method, but it could also be
> expanded to Digest (and others)
>
> 2) davlib -- my existing module. needs a couple items of work: allow
> alternate/fallback XML parsers (it uses Expat + qp_xml right now), and
> use the authenticated HTTP connections.
>
> That is at least a start on what needs to happen. We can flesh it out with a
> PEP or by checking in the modules.
> (Moshe and I talked about httpauth a bit at the last Python Conference; I
> know he is interested in working on something like that)
Good!
> I'm not sure how we normally write tests for network-based modules, but it
> shouldn't be too hard to have them run against test.webdav.org.
Can someone help Greg with his question about testing network modules?
Generally the test suite doesn't assume internet access; network code
is "tested" using a second thread and localhost.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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